Well,
-summarize- never sees the -tempvar- that you intend to use; instead it sees
nothing. If -su- sees nothing, it -summarize-s everything by default,
including your -tempvar-...
HTH
Martin
_______________________
----- Original Message -----
From: "mario fiorini" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 12:44 AM
Subject: st: read tempvars in user created programs
Dear all,
I have written a program to produce some test statistics. However, the
program does not seem able to use the temporary variables
that I've generated outside of it. For illustrative purposes consider the
following lines, where I define a program to summarize a tempvar (my real
problem is more complex and that's why I use a program).
// ===================
cap program drop progtempvar;
program define progtempvar;
args progvars;
di "`progvars'";
su `TV`progvars'';
end;
sysuse auto;
tempvar TVprice; ge `TVprice'= price;
progtempvar price;
// ======================
The program would not recognize the temporary variable. Is there a way to
get around this without creating a non-temporary variable?
(that is why " reg price `TVprice' " work instead?) Thanks in advance,
Mario
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